A retired Indiana fertility doctor accused of inseminating patients will get no jail time after pleading guilty to lying to investigatorsA judge sentenced Dr. Donald Cline on Thursday to a one-year suspended sentence. Cline had pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice.Prosecutors say the 79-year-old Cline initially wrote to investigators denying he used his own sperm.According to court records, paternity tests indicate Cline is likely the biological father of at least two of his patients’ children. Those children allege online genetic tests show he might be the father of 20 others.Indiana law doesn’t specifically prohibit fertility doctors from using their own sperm.

INDIANAPOLIS —

A retired Indiana fertility doctor accused of inseminating patients will get no jail time after pleading guilty to lying to investigators

A judge sentenced Dr. Donald Cline on Thursday to a one-year suspended sentence. Cline had pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice.

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Prosecutors say the 79-year-old Cline initially wrote to investigators denying he used his own sperm.

According to court records, paternity tests indicate Cline is likely the biological father of at least two of his patients’ children. Those children allege online genetic tests show he might be the father of 20 others.

Indiana law doesn’t specifically prohibit fertility doctors from using their own sperm.